Ashi of Thorn

Ashi of Thorn (1052-) was the steward of the Seljuk Empire.

Biography
Ashi of Thorn was born in 1052 in present-day Torun, Poland to an Ashkenazi Jewish family, and he came highly recommended in the arts of bookkeeping and administration. On 12 February 1082, Ashi traveled to the Muslim Seljuk Empire. He already suggested several ways of increasing the bureaucratic efficiency of the realm, and he could potentially make a fine steward. Malik Shah received him and made him the Steward of the Seljuk Sultanate, and he married him to Derav, a lowborn woman of the realm.